Emotion and Motivation II: Sex Differences in Picture Processing
Emotion and Motivation II: Sex Differences in Picture Processing
复制标题
DOI：
10.1037//1528-3542.1.3.300
复制
发表时间：
2001-09-01
期刊：
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Lang, Peter J.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Bradley, Margaret M.;Codispoti, Maurizio;Lang, Peter J.
坚持认为，情绪反应是由潜在的动机状态防御和食欲组织的一部分，我们调查了性别差异的动机激活。当参与者观看具有不同情感和中性内容的图片时，测量了男性和女性的情感反应。正如预期的那样，威胁、残害和色情的高度唤起内容在男性和女性中都引起了最大的情感反应。尽管如此，女性表现出广泛的倾向，以更大的防御反应厌恶的图片，无论具体内容，而增加食欲激活是明显的男性只有在观看色情。生物和社会文化因素在塑造性别差异的情绪反应被认为是可能的调解人的性别差异的情绪反应。
Adhering to the view that emotional reactivity is organized in part by underlying motivational states-defensive and appetitive-we investigated sex differences in motivational activation. Men's and women's affective reactions were measured while participants viewed pictures with varied emotional and neutral content. As expected, highly arousing contents of threat, mutilation, and erotica prompted the largest affective reactions in both men and women. Nonetheless, women showed a broad disposition to respond with greater defensive reactivity to aversive pictures, regardless of specific content, whereas increased appetitive activation was apparent for men only when viewing erotica. Biological and sociocultural factors in shaping sex differences in emotional reactivity are considered as possible mediators of sex differences in emotional response.